If there’s a different deployment that could have worked, then the one that did go wasn’t the “best”. Critique should be around the 5 whys the actual best wasn’t selected for.
Turns out this is the conclusion in CloudFlare’s update:
> “Our testing processes were insufficient in this case and we are reviewing and making changes to our testing and deployment process to avoid incidents like this in the future.”
They’re going after the definition of good for their deployments.
